Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!rutgers!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uw-beaver!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tekred!vekurpan From: vekurpan@tekred.CNA.TEK.COM (Vincent E Kurpan) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Fooling Radar Detectors Message-ID: <6248@tekred.CNA.TEK.COM> Date: 31 Aug 90 20:06:09 GMT References: <6154@tekred.CNA.TEK.COM> <236@sgfb.ssd.ray.com> Reply-To: vekurpan@tekred.CNA.TEK.COM (Vincent E Kurpan) Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Redmond, OR. Lines: 22 In article <236@sgfb.ssd.ray.com> iws@sgfb.ssd.ray.com (Ihor W. Slabicky) writes: >In article <6154@tekred.CNA.TEK.COM>, vekurpan@tekred.CNA.TEK.COM (Vincent E Kurpan) writes: >> Radar countermeasures: >> >> He was at one time a consultant on police radar and worked for the >> state police investigating backscatter for potential health risk. > >What were the results of these investigations of potential health >risks? > >Ihor He claimed that the units placed on the dash and aimed out the windshield were terrible because the window is very near the Bragg angle and causes a large reflection. He also said that cataracts are much more common among officers. Microwave radiation and even rf is much more dangerous than many people think. It can cause brain damage and other things that are difficult to trace or quantify. Please reserve comments about cops being blind or brain dead etc. This is sci.electronics not MAD Magazine.